Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Kanpur: On the instructions of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, a second autopsy of the 31 blackbuck that were killed by stray dogs inside their enclosure in Kanpur zoo on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday will be conducted to ascertain the exact cause of the death of this antelope …
Lucknow: The illegal felling of trees is fast depriving Uttar Pradesh of its precious forest wealth. In 2012-13, trees worth Rs 1.4 crore have been illegally chopped off on the forest land. This is only the "reported" loss of timber and does not include unaccounted cases. On January 18, chief …
On the eve of the first ritual bath of Mahakumbh, which started over a week ago, a group of pilgrims from Bangalore spot a body in the Ganga where it meets the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati. “It was a grim sight ahead of the Mahakumbh. We looked the other …
Cold wave conditions persisted in North India on Sunday, where temperatures remained variably below normal in most parts of the region. In Himachal, five persons were killed in an avalanche in Kinnau district on Saturday night, officials said, adding upper reaches of the State remained cut off for the fifth …
The Maha Kumbh Mela, considered the largest public gathering in the world, will be the subject of a case study at Harvard University, which will study the logistics and economics behind it and the “pop-up mega-city” that comes to life in Allahabad during the religious event. A team of faculty …
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Sunday said it has installed a 100 kw solar power plant in Lucknow, which would help save 26,000 litres of diesel per year consumed to power its major routing centre. “Bharti Airtel has installed a solar power plant at Gangaganj, Lucknow. This location is one …
Money for improving quality of drinking water in rural areas The governments of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and some other states have drawn the ire of the Centre for failing to report the utilisation of funds provided to them for improving quality of drinking water in …
ALLAHABAD: Alarmed over the ever increasing level of pollution in the Ganga, especially in the backdrop of ongoing MahaKumbh and TOI publishing news on the deteriorating condition of the river, plus seers threatening to boycott the next major snan (bath), a nine-member Parliamentary Standing Committee of RajyaSabha on Science & …
Sangam (Allahabad): Even as Shankracharyas, seers and Dandi swamis along with akharas have threatened to boycott the next ShahiSnan of MauniAmavasya on February 10 in view of the "poor health" of the Gnaga, Mela authorities on Saturday claimed that about 2,000 cusecs of water is being released from the Narora …
By going through the factors responsible for the failure of Ganga Action Plan (GAP), the parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, environment and forests has doubts if the Prime Minister's mission of cleaning Ganga by 2020 will be accomplished. After Saturday's stay in Allahabad, the committee was in Varanasi …
In step with its commitment to the Centre to put its house in order in exchange for the financial restructuring package, the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (UPPCL) is proposing a steep hike in the annual tariff structure from the next fiscal. And unlike last year, when the industrial sector was …
LUCKNOW: Urban development minister Azam Khan on Friday announced construction of 4,000 houses for urban poor under the 'Aasra' scheme at the cost of Rs 100 crore in the current budget session. Surprisingly, the announced scheme closely resembles an ambitious scheme in the name of former chief minister Mayawati's mentor, …
ALLAHABAD: Agitated over high levels of pollution and shallow water in the holy Ganga, the Shankracharyas, seers and Dandi swamis, along with all the akaharas, are all set to repeat the feat of 2010 Mahakumbh of Hardwar- boycott the next 'Shahi Snan' on Mauni Amavasya scheduled for February 10. These …
NEW DELHI: With learning levels in the country dipping to an all-time low it is states like Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand where the least number of children can read, while those in Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh are worst in basic arithmetic. According to the Annual Status of Education …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has set February 15 as the last date for state governments to submit site-specific proposals for declaration of eco-sensitive zones around national parks and sanctuaries. As a result, the Gautam Budh Nagar district forest department has begun work on formulating the list …
Recommends 5 kg of foodgrains, down from the earlier 7 kg A day before the Congress’s ‘Chintan Shivir’, a Parliament Standing Committee on Thursday presented the much-awaited report on the Food Security Bill, giving legal entitlement of uniform five kg of foodgrains to 75 per cent of the country’s rural …
LUCKNOW: The coveted Gomti riverfront project, which entails utilisation of the unused lands and beautification of the riverbank, finally got a consultant on Thursday. The German firm, Urban Aqua, which has formed a consortium with ANB Consultant of Lucknow, has won the bid for the riverfront project. There were 12 …
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday asked the Varanasi Nagar Nigam and other authorities to provide instructions within 15 days to disclose aims and objects behind constructions of multi- storeyed toilets on the banks of Ganga at various Ghats in Varanasi district. This order was passed by acting Chief Justice …
The National Green Tribunal constituted an expert body on Tuesday to determine the 'causes' and 'extent' of environmental pollution in Noida, which 'is certainly affecting the life of residents'. The tribunal passed the order on a petition filed by a Noida resident alleging high levels of environmental pollution in the …
GHAZIABAD: Dealing a severe blow to Ghaziabad industries, the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday ordered the state government to shut down two dozen polluting units as the city has been rated the third most polluted in the country. The tribunal also ordered the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to …
